Greater Powell Chapel
Greater Powell Chapel is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Grenada, MS 38901. It is one of 72 churches in Grenada, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Grenada, MS, 38901Greater Powell Chapel is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 614 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Greater Powell Chapel
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 52.8%
- Child Poverty: 42.7% (27.2–58.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.1%
- Diabetes: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
- Poverty Rate: 29.5% (19.4–39.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.7%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (2.2–17.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Grenada city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 369 residents.
Churches near Greater Powell Chapel
- Covenant House Word Of Faith Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Abundant Life Assembly — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Pine Hill Missionary Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Vincent United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint James Church — 0.6 mi away
- Battle Temple Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Bell Flowers Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Life Christian Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Vincent United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grenada First Methodist — 0.8 mi away
- Lakewood Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
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